Nothing ruins a historical war fiction novel than....

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm



Why didn't they simply ask their opponents to take pictures for them? And then post them online for everyone to see? [&:]

warspite1

A few did - or at least attempted to - in the early days. The trouble was, no sooner had one begun uttering the line "I say, excuse me old boy, but would you mind awfully doi........." than one tended to get sawn in half by a ruddy great machine gun....

Ah. That explains it. How dumb. Always a risk for misunderstandings when you do it in real life. They should, of course, created a friendgroup online beforehand and agreed on a time and place for the event. And arranged for proper documentation as well. Maybe even make a live coverage out of it? Hashtag WemeetinFlanders

warspite1

Indeed, but in fairness it was early days for mobile technology and I don't think owners at that time had a full grasp of the possibilities.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Indeed, but in fairness it was early days for mobile technology and I don't think owners at that time had a full grasp of the possibilities.

What? Must have been like, literally, like the stone age then.

[Edmon]

This might actually make for an amusing book. WWI with some banal, specific and ridiculously out of place 2020 internet technology. It could start off historical and gradually add 2020 internet things and just get more surreal as it goes along...

"Just got trenchfoot >:(. #health #stuckinthewar #noonecares."

[warspite1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_b1Y-Rl_Uo

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: Edmon

This might actually make for an amusing book. WWI with some banal, specific and ridiculously out of place 2020 internet technology. It could start off historical and gradually add 2020 internet things and just get more surreal as it goes along...

"Just got trenchfoot >:(. #health #stuckinthewar #noonecares."

I read only the first of Harry Turtledove's novels about "Aliens attack Earth during WWII". It was long ago, but I remember how the "advanced alien technology" was based on the late '80s-early '90s weapon systems (you could actually read about the German panzer divisions being attacked by what, by all means and descriptions, were A-10 Warthogs "painted" alien [8|]). I stopped reading after the first book: it was terminally lazy.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm

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warspite1

A few did - or at least attempted to - in the early days. The trouble was, no sooner had one begun uttering the line "I say, excuse me old boy, but would you mind awfully doi........." than one tended to get sawn in half by a ruddy great machine gun....

Ah. That explains it. How dumb. Always a risk for misunderstandings when you do it in real life. They should, of course, created a friendgroup online beforehand and agreed on a time and place for the event. And arranged for proper documentation as well. Maybe even make a live coverage out of it? Hashtag WemeetinFlanders

warspite1

Indeed, but in fairness it was early days for mobile technology and I don't think owners at that time had a full grasp of the possibilities.

I thought that they did get cell phone pictures during the Christmas Truce in 1914! Videos as well of them singing carols and playing soccer/football!

What gets me is that they went over the top when the remote control drones with the video cameras were letting them know that they were attacking into a bunch of machine guns. So much so that their Kevlar would not protect them!

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: Edmon

This might actually make for an amusing book. WWI with some banal, specific and ridiculously out of place 2020 internet technology. It could start off historical and gradually add 2020 internet things and just get more surreal as it goes along...

"Just got trenchfoot >:(. #health #stuckinthewar #noonecares."

As long as mobile phones are historically accurate models with respective functions [:'(]

On more serious note, there are cartoons like that. Archer is spy stuff. I recall seeing a clip on YouTube where 2 agents climb up a wall with a rope, and a boy snaps a photo with his cell phone. Gintama is anime, which seems to take a place in Edo period where aliens came in and revamped Japan's technology and culture. In Batman Ninja Batman & friends & villains go to Japan in time of sengoku jidai and mess the place up. With mecha [X(]